I like your delicate grasses best, and you’re right that they’re fine enough not to make much of a shadow, especially if they’re moving. The shadow at the base of a clump seems almost more a part of the clump than a distinct element.

I guess it’s the slanted dunes you love that make diagonals so prominent in much of your work. But they find their way into the sky, too!

I know, using landscapes, I am now practicing techniques – Geometry, new pigments to mix, a larger format, different size brushes.

That is a lovely picture of lilies with …relationship of reflections in the foreground to the shadows beyond.

Wikipedia talks about the German Expressionist films (1920s-1930s)….with designs painted on walls and floors to represent lights, shadows, and objects.
A fun pictures of Nosferatu.

Apparently Hitchcock was sent to Germany to learn film making. Now I now why I was scared of shadows. Looking at your lily picture will cure me.

Puts me in mind of an old ’07 post called The Duck Pond wherein one encounters a water plant exhibiting both reflectivity and shadowicity. As I understand, German cinema in the inter-war years used a lot of portentous shadow effects. Wrong era?

I have been thinking about reflections and shadows. Searching A&P, I found that in summer shadows, I admit that …shadows are something that I had a blind spot for. In contrast, I have always been partial to reflections…

In de Chirico’s paintings, I find the shadows frightening. But now, I will attempt to pay attention to shadows and perhaps learn to make friends with them.